February 10, 2015

Because they could not fight the Phoenicians by ship, whom were good at naval battle. The Romans were good at land battle. So, while on their ship, they invented the grappling hook to latch onto their enemy's ship and pulled their ship close enough to board the enemy ship for close--combat.

I was mind blown by this discovery. Cause it makes so much sense! It's good to know! Cause, ever since 3rd century BC, pirates have adapted the tool.

Below is a picture of Romans attacking an Egyptian ship:

My Remmington Pirates use it in the 1700s with all the other pirates and naval sailors using it too.

Below is from Assassins Creed Black Flag: Can you find the grappling hook?

2 T Earth Balance Butter and Bacon Fat (melted in the pan and then pour into the bowl of mixed dry ingredients, where the whisking of wet and dry ingredients happens)

Once all ingredients are smooth and blended, pour over bacon. Use back of spoon to spread it out over and around the bacon evenly.

The pancake batter is very thick. You could add more liquid of some sort to thin it our if you refer your pancakes thin. I, however, prefer mine thick, so I have not tried thinning out the batter. That would be your experience to report.

After you pancake is cooked, you eat it obviously, but I have no experience eating it with anything on top of it, because I like plain and simple. That is they way of my tastebuds. So once again, that will be your adventure - to enhance the flavour in whichever direction you want it...???

January 29, 2015

The workout really is doable if broken up into sections over 2-3 days if your schedule doesn't allow this kind of training.

Or you could just not do some of the sections, like Strengthening Circuit or the MMA Training. You could just do the Tabata Interval Warm-Up and 1-2 Sets of Strengthening or something else you want to do? Run? Bike? Even just doing the 8min Tabata and calling it good for the day works on your busier or lazy days. I mean, at least you're trying right? It's definitely a start! [=

At any rate, here are my times for the different sections in the workou.

So, originally I was thinking, "Oh, yea! This will be a shorter workout than the other two!"

Haha!

That's funny, Hannah!

Ah, well! I once again feel victorious!

Warning: I might be using the word "victorious" a bit more, especially since I've never been so consistent with such long workouts without dying. It really is a great endurance challenge and has lots of strength challenges in the beginning with the circuit - which is the most strenuous part.

It's totally worth it!

The Wolverine Workout Wednesday Routine – Back & Biceps

8min Tabata Warm-Up: 50sec Hard 10sec Rest

1st Round - Jump Rope. 5th Round - Mt Climbers

2nd Round - L. Single-Arm DB Swing 6th Round - Plank Jacks

3rd Round - R. Single-Arm DB Swing 7th Round - Planks Twists

4th Round - Burpee 8th Round - Spider-Man Planks

1min Rest

Do 4 Sets:

12 reps Pull-Ups

12 reps Dumbbell Rows (20lbs)

10 reps Bodyweight Rows (20lbs)

10 reps Incline Dumbbell Curls (15lbs)

8 reps Zottman Bicep Curls (15lbs) 3rd n 4th time used 10lbs)

8 reps Cross Body Curls (4 each side) (15lbs)

8 reps Pronated Curls (15lbs)

4min Rest and Stretch

5min MMA Techniques (1st Side Kick and Spin Side Kick; 2nd Spin Side Kick to Side Hammer to Front Hammer; 3rd Cover&Advance to Palm to Spin Side Kick)

4min Rest

(Notice, 24min of cardio done already) ;]

The Wolverine Workout Cardio For Wednesday = 32min (below)

10 min MMA Fight Combo:

building off of the "Cover&Advance to Palm to Spin Side Kick" from above

I was inspired by one of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine workout plans. He changes up his workout plans for each film to challenge himself in different ways. I do no remember which Wolverine film he was preparing for when he did this workout with the trainer, David Kingsbury.

"The Wolverine Workout Monday routine starts with a Chest & Arms workout, followed by 45 minutes of low-impact cardio on an empty stomach. The key is that do weightlifting and cardio before the first meal of the day to burn fat."

Now, in my version, I did not do it till the afternoon and I did it on Sunday, but that's ok. Also I turned the weight lifting section into a strengthening-cardio. Because I am going through all of the exercises in that circuit as fast as I can (in a slow and controlled way), while still keeping good form and only giving myself enough seconds of recovery between each exercise. Thus, upping the calorie torch.

After completely all those exercises, I rest and maybe do a little stretching and drink some water, and then do 4min of resting/cardio (I practiced Mixed Martial Arts. You could continue to rest). - This all equals 1 Set.

Depending on your fitness level you could do more. I did 4 sets, cause that is what Hugh Jackman did and I believed I was fit enough to do so. Granted, after the 1st set I mentally wanted to be done, but I pushed myself, and then had the mentality of stubburn refusal to give up. Resulting to an accomplished feeling of getting my goals done.

I confess, the 2min rest was NOT enough though. Because, when I was trying to practice my Spinning Side Kick in the 4min following rest - boy was I sloppy! So if I want my technique to be good, I need to let my body recover more from the exertion. Next time, I'm tacking on 2-4 more minutes of rest before my 4min resting/cardio, which is completely optional for any level. Meaning you don't even have to do the 4 min cardio part between sets, just rest, stretch, drink, water, let your body recover, whatever.

Notice, I have already done 32 minutes of cardio (in the warm-up and between strength sets), and my goal is at least 45min, cause that is what Hugh Jackman did). But you don't have to do any cardio if you don't want to. You can just do the cardio between sets or no cardio between sets and do all 45 min of cardio after the strengthening portion - whatever works for you, whatever makes you happy and makes you feel accomplished.

January 26, 2015

I followed this recipe on pintrist, but made a couple modifications from the original "Cinnamon Roll Pie" recipe done by the Earth Balance company.

And it tastes so delicious! I'd eat the whole thing at once if I could, but that would involve an exploding stomach and be no fun!

Alas, let's get to the recipe, eh?

Here are some of the main ingredients...

For the Dough:

2 3/4 c Betty Crocker's GF All-Purpose Flour

3 T plus 1/8 c Truvia

1 t Baking Powder

1/2 t Baking Soda

2 t Apple Cider Vinegar

6 T Earth Balance Buttery Spread (with no soy version) (melted)

3/4 c Rice Milk plus more to make a nice firm ball

[probably 4-6 T more - I added by the tablespoon till it made the dough a nice non-crumbly ball, which I do no recollect how many more tablespoons that was. Sorry! I will try to remember next time I make em!]

For the Filling:

Heaping 3/4 Truvia

5 T All-Purpose Flour

1 T Cinnamon

6 T Earth Balance Buttery Spread (melted)

It's really quite simple now.

Directions:

1st Mix all the ingredients for the dough. (Mix for about 1-2, maybe 3 minutes is fine too, just till the dough becomes a ball)

2nd Mix all the ingredients for the filling

3rd Roll out 2/3 of the dough (set us for top part of pie) and put in bottom of standard 9" pie pan. (I rolled the base out on the parchment paper, so I could just lift the delicate, flat dough into the pie pan and gently press the dough into pie pan more fittingly.

4th Spread about 2/3 of the filling into the base of the dough.

5th Roll Out the last 1/3 of the dough for the top part of the pie on another piece of parchment paper. And then lift the parchment paper, flip it upside on top of the filling and base-dough.

(This part was probably the trickiest to get on, cause mine ended slightly lopsided, so I had to move it more centered. And of course, cause the flattened dough is so fragile it ripped several times during the process. But that's ok, cause it sticks back together reall nice like when gently pressed together.)

6th Bake at 400 degrees for 20min.

I cut my circles not in pie form.

Oh! And it's called "Half-Done" cause it's sooo sweet as is without a sweet glaze to go on top.

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Hi! Welcome to the blog for my "Remmington Pirates Saga," where I talk about my book, characters, show scenes and parts of the books AND randomly about (gluten, corn, dairy, egg, soy free or vegan - depending on my day's option of foods for) recipes OR fitness and nutrition related.

To give you an idea of what my pirate story entails, is that the style is like Indiana Jones, the video game Uncharted, Pride and Prejudice, Pirates of the Caribbean and a whole lot of my other favourite movies, books, and tv series (I've listed them below) that I grew up watching and reading and am currently watching and reading, EXCEPT this Remmington Pirate Series is set in the early 18th century!

The story is so complicated and complex and exciting I wish it was done and published now, but I must have patience with myself in sorting through my puked up mountain of ideas.

I don't like cheesy. I like action-adventure, romance, fantasy to be imagineably realistically imagined! Did that make any sense?

Anyways, I certainly love writing my pirate story (and cooking and working out and traveling)!